“Where is My Flying Car?” with J. Storrs Hall

On this week’s Power Hour Alex interviews futurist J. Storrs Hall, author of the mind-blowing book Where’s My Flying Car? which gives a brilliant analysis of what has held back many forms of progress, including flying cars, over the last half-century.

Topics they cover include:

- What is the Great Stagnation?

- How did you become interested in analyzing the Great Stagnation?

- What is your basic explanation for The Great Stagnation?

- How does government funding of research promote stagnation?

- How does the “green” philosophy promote stagnation?

- What was the trajectory of nuclear energy before government started criminalizing it?

- What legal/regulatory reforms are necessary to decriminalize nuclear?

- What can we do to liberate human progress from its political and philosophical strangulation?